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5/7/5 Ekphrastic Autumn Haiku for Haiku Club Event
Lone Egret
by Gypsy Blue Rose
Poem of the Month contest entry
If You Would Like To Join the Haiku Club, please check my author notes
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egret lost his wedge
in the vacuous long night —
sound of loneliness
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Author Notes
If you would like to join the Haiku Club, click on the 'clubs' link below and look for it. If you need help or if you have a question, please do not hesitate to contact me.
wedge= a group of egrets
vacuous= empty
KIGO (long night) is late autumn season words -- THE FIVE HUNDRED ESSENTIAL JAPANESE SEASON WORDS
An EKPHRASTIC poem is a vivid description of a scene or a work of art.
HAIKU is a Japanese short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature intuitively linked to the human condition. FORM: In Japanese, haiku is written in three lines 5/7/5. In English, it's 17 syllables or less, as brief as possible.
The essence of haiku is represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas separated by a dash to pause for introspection, usually at end of the second line. source of 5/7/5 syllables rule *** source haiku rules by William J. Higginson, Haiku Society of America *** HaikuWorld.org
Picture by Michael's playground
Thank you very much for your review and your valuable time,
Gypsy
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